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Hartford History Center
Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
There is a huge amount of extremely cool stuff on Hartford’s History in here – more than 50,000 books, trade publications, postcards, photographs and memorabilia. They’ve got revolving exhibits and guest speakers that rotate monthly. Keep checking their site for new events…